Category: authentication

Thanks to a blog post by Alec Saunders, I found out about a lovely WordPress plugin that not only allows you to allow people to authenticate using their OpenID credentials in order to leave comments on your …

Spotted when signing up for ShoZu today.

This blog entry from simonwillison.net explains how to get your own, personalized OpenID, yet use someone else’s server to provide the service. For example, I am redirecting my spiffy new OpenID to my Vox account, though I …

Between a private email from Aswath and other posts on OpenID, I have reconsidered my opinion on this. It may not be such a bad thing after all.

What really hit me in the shower this morning …

I was reading Aswath’s post on OpenID today and I realized the fundamental flaw with it: that anyone can create an authentication server to validate your request. While that’s fine and dandy from a lack of vendor lock-in point …